Peter Dinklage
Acting • Born 1969-06-11
Biography
Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), Dinklage won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. He also received a Golden Globe Award in 2011 and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 for the role. Born in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in a number of amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film Living in Oblivion (1995), and had his breakthrough with a starring role in the 2003 comedy-drama The Station Agent. His other films include Elf (2003), Lassie and The Baxter (both in 2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Penelope (2006), Death at a Funeral (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Death at a Funeral (2010), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and Wicked (2024). In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War, and as Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé. He also provided voice-acting for the video game Destiny, and in 2023, he voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On television, he also starred in the series Dexter: Resurrection in 2025. Dinklage has also performed in theater, with roles including the title character in Richard III (2003) at the Public Theatre, Rakitin in A Month in the Country (2015) at Classic Stage Company, and Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano at the Daryl Roth Theatre in 2019. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Peter Dinklage.
Filmography
108 credits
The Station Agent
Movie • 2003
Finbar McBride
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2007
Peter
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Movie • 2008
Trumpkin
Elf
Movie • 2003
Miles Finch
Underdog
Movie • 2007
Dr. Simon Barsinister
Penelope
Movie • 2007
Lemon
Living in Oblivion
Movie • 1995
Tito
Find Me Guilty
Movie • 2006
Ben Klandis
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2010
Frank
Lassie
Movie • 2005
Rowlie
Just a Kiss
Movie • 2002
Dink
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
Movie • 2008
Self
Safe Men
Movie • 1998
Leflore
A Little Bit of Heaven
Movie • 2011
Vinnie
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
Movie • 2010
dwarf
I Love You Too
Movie • 2010
Charlie
American Dreamer
Movie • 2022
Phil Loder
Pete Smalls Is Dead
Movie • 2010
K.C.
Little Fugitive
Movie • 2006
Sam Norton
Knights of Badassdom
Movie • 2014
Hung
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Movie • 2012
Captain Gutt (voice)
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Movie • 2014
Dr. Bolivar Trask
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Movie • 2014
Aaron Altmann
She Came to Me
Movie • 2023
Steven Lauddem
The Limbo Room
Movie • 2006
Dusty Spitz
A Case of You
Movie • 2013
Gerard
Low Down
Movie • 2014
Alain
Pixels
Movie • 2015
Eddie
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Movie • 2023
Dean Casca Highbottom
The Angry Birds Movie
Movie • 2016
Mighty Eagle (voice)
Never Again
Movie • 2001
Harry Appleton
Human Nature
Movie • 2001
Frank
Tiptoes
Movie • 2002
Maurice
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Movie • 2015
Tyrion Lannister
The Boss
Movie • 2016
Renault
Taxi
Movie • 2015
Marc
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Movie • 2023
Scourge (voice)
Bullet
Movie • 1996
Building Manager
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Movie • 2024
Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)
Unfrosted
Movie • 2024
Harry Friendly
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
Movie • 2024
Self
The Thicket
Movie • 2024
Reginald Jones
Rememory
Movie • 2017
Sam Bloom
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Movie • 2017
James
13 Moons
Movie • 2002
Binky
Ascension Day
Movie • 2007
Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Three Christs
Movie • 2017
Joseph
Lear Rex
Movie
The Fool
I Think We're Alone Now
Movie • 2018
Del
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
Movie • 2011
Captain Gutt (voice)
Nobody Wants Your Film
Movie • 2005
Self
My Dinner with Hervé
Movie • 2018
Hervé Villechaize
Ultra
Movie • 2006
The Scientist
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
Movie • 2017
Narrator / Adult Kevin (voice)
Pigeonholed
Movie • 1999
Saint John of Las Vegas
Movie • 2010
Mr. Townsend
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie • 2018
Eitri
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Movie • 2019
Mighty Eagle (voice)
The Dwarf
Movie
The Croods: A New Age
Movie • 2020
Phil Betterman (voice)
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Movie • 2019
Self
The Origins of Ebbing
Movie • 2018
Self
Brothers
Movie • 2024
Jady Munger
I Care a Lot
Movie • 2021
Roman Lunyov
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Movie • 2019
Peter Dinklage
Cyrano
Movie • 2021
Cyrano de Bergerac
Keith
Movie
The Baxter
Movie • 2005
Benson Hedges
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
Movie • 2025
Winston / Toxie, the Hero
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
Movie • 2021
Phil Betterman (voice)
Surviving Eden
Movie • 2004
Sterno
Roofman
Movie • 2025
Mitch
Wicked
Movie • 2024
Dr. Dillamond (voice)
The Shitheads
Movie • 2026
Koko
Wicker
Movie • 2026
Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Making Wicked
Movie • 2024
Self
Fortunes
Movie • 2005
Mike Kirkwood
Twelfth Night
Movie • 2025
Malvolio
Mutant vs. Machine: The Making of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
Movie • 2015
Self
World of Westeros Ambient Video
Movie • 2025
Tyrion Lannister
Third Watch
TV • 1999
Drug Dealer
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister
Threshold
TV • 2005
Arthur Ramsey
The $treet
TV • 2000
Little Person
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Entourage
TV • 2004
Peter Dinklage
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Marlowe Sawyer
I'm with Her
TV • 2003
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Stewart
How to Become a Tyrant
TV • 2021
Self - Narrator (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Marvel Studios Legends
TV • 2021
Eitri the Dwarf (archive footage) (uncredited)
How to Become a Cult Leader
TV • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Oz
TV • 1997
Murder Victim (uncredited)
Life As We Know It
TV • 2004
Dr. Belber
MTV Movie & TV Awards
TV • 1992
Self / Presenter
How to Become a Mob Boss
TV • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Rick and Morty
TV • 2013
Chans (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self
Dexter: Resurrection
TV • 2025
Leon Prater
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Malvolio
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest